On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 23:00 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Is there a way to check out a tree without changing the mtime of any > files that you have already checked out and which are the same as the > version you are checking out? It seems that checkout-cache -a doesn't > overwrite any existing files, and checkout-cache -f -a overwrites all > files and gives them the current mtime. This is a pain if you are > using make and your tree is large (like, for instance, the linux > kernel :), because it means that after a checkout-cache -f -a you get > to recompile everything.
Corollary: why aren't we storing mtime in the tree objects? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
